ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,575, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Liaoning, China).

"Process for conformal processing of cylindrical shell inner weld seam" was invented by Te Li (Liaoning, China), Tian Lan (Liaoning, China), Haibo Liu (Liaoning, China), Yuhang Ge (Liaoning, China), Qile Bo (Liaoning, China), Kuo Liu (Liaoning, China), Xingjian Liu (Liaoning, China), Xu Li (Liaoning, China) and Yongqing Wang (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for conformal processing of a cylindrical shell inner weld seam by a special mobile robot includes using a laser scanner to scan a cylindrical shell inner weld seam ...